Android circa 2008

Wow. “Google, the worlds biggest and most well known search company, has recently teamed up with Andy Rubin, the creator of the Sidekick, to create an operating system for many mobile platforms, called Project Android. ... Android also has a SDK that has already been released for developers to play with. Using Java, developers can make applications from scratch that do anything from enable you to check your email, to playing the hottest new game. Along with its operating system, Android relies on Linux 2.6 to run its core services such a security, memory, and any other behind the scenes work a computers operating system would normally do.”

(There are times when I’d kill for the keyboard on my old BlackBerry devices ... But then I realize how much better the iPhone UX is and it passes.)

https://theilife.com/2008/07/the-phone-to-beat-the-iphone-meet-googles-android/